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That was why Winona had always believed there were certain things Tracy couldn’t possibly know. After all, they had very little interaction at the time. But now, hearing Tracy ask the question made her heart skip a beat.
Winona’s expression flickered. She picked up the water ss on the table and took a sip. “Why are you suddenly asking about this?”
Tracy nced at her hand, which trembled slightly as she held the ss, and spoke in a low voice. “When she jumped, I happened to be on the rooftop.”
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The ss slipped from Winona’s hand and mmed onto the floor, shattering into pieces. Cold water sshed onto her legs, making her shudder uncontrobly.
Tracy’s expression didn’t change at all, as if Winona’s intense reaction had nothing to do with her.
Themotion drew every pair of eyes in the café toward them, and a waiter quickly came over to clean up the mess.
Winona waved the waiter away, her face deathly pale. Bracing her hands on the table, she leaned forward slightly without realizing it. “What do you mean by that? Do you know something?<b>” </b>
Tracy stayed calm, her gaze fixed steadily on Winona. She didn’t rush to answer.
She wasn’t lying–before that girl jumped, she had indeed been on the rooftop and had even spoken to her.
Unfortunately, she hadn’t been able to persuade her to step back.
After what felt like an eternity, Winona was nearly driven to the edge by Tracy’s calm demeanor, and Tracy finally spoke. “Before she jumped, she told me something. Do you want to know what it was<b>?</b><b>” </b>
Winona’s face turned even paler, and she sank heavily back into her seat.
“What …
what did she say to you?” Her voice trembled as much as her hands.
Tracy finally set down the ss she had been holding, her tone cool. “Does it matter what she said?<b>” </b>
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Tracy decided to be blunt. “We never had any deep grudges to begin with, and our ces in life will always be worlds apart. You really don’t need to put so much effort into targeting me.
“If you stop going after me and the people around me, I can forget what that girl told me, and I can make sure there will never be any evidence left.
“Sounds like a fair deal to you, doesn’t it?”
Her meaning couldn’t have been clearer, and of course Winona understood.
She hadn’t expected that Tracy could have evidence about something she thought had been buried for years.
No one liked being threatened. Moreover, Winona hade to see Tracy today with malicious intent after receiving Kellen’s call.
But if that incident from back then were to be exposed, her life would be ruined beyond repair.
She couldn’t afford to take that risk!
“I can let Phoebe go, and I won’t bother you again.” Winona gritted her teeth as she agreed.
Yet once malice took root, suppressing it for the moment would only invite a stronger bacsh.
After leaving the café and making sure Winona could no longer see her, Tracy finally let out the breath she had been holding.
She hadn’t lied to Winona. When that girl jumped off the building, she really had been on the rooftop, and she really had spoken to her.
But all she had done was urge her toe down. The girl had only left her with one sentence: “My life has already been driven to the edge by Winona, and she’s already destroyed me!”
Leaving those words behind, she hadn’t even given Tracy the chance to speak before leaping from the rooftop.
The shock of watching a life vanish before her eyes had knocked Tracy unconscious.
When she woke up, the first thing she did was tell Andrew what the girl had said.
But the look of despair and pain in that girl’s eyes became a nightmare that haunted Tracy for
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a long time. She had fallen seriously ill because of it, and it was only after she recovered that she heard from Andrew about what had happened afterward.
The school’s investigation concluded that the girl had taken her own life because she was under heavy academic pressure and had developed depression.
But Tracy had heard whispers saying that the girl had been enduring Winona’s bullying since 10th grade.
Tracy was certain the Millers had interfered, forcing the school to keep Winona’s name out of it. But she had nothing solid to prove it.
At the time, Andrew had advised her that since the Millers worked closely with the Gills, any scandal involving Winona would drag the Gills and Norris into it as well.
Back then, Tracy had beenpletely devoted to Norris. Since she had no proof that the girl’s death was connected to Winona, she had agreed to Andrew’s suggestion and decided to bury the matter deep inside her.
So she had deliberately avoided the subject ever since. To this day, she still didn’t know the name of the girl who had jumped to her death in front of her. Yet now she was using her as leverage against Winona.
By all ounts, she owed that girl.
Drawing a long breath, Tracy decided that when she had the means, she would look into the girl’s family <i>to </i>see if there was a way to support them.
And while she was at it, she also needed to investigate a girl named Patricia Vesper, who had once attended Sunderpeak High School with them but had transferred out in her 12th grade
year.
Finding her was a promise she had made to someone–one that she fully intended to keep.